and bought Sky+HD and a 100hz 1080 blah blah blah HD telly a couple of months ago.

Life just looks incredible. It's the best advert for HD ever.

liked the tentacle pr0n and the dead baby seal sequence. Now PETA will have to add these sea kittens to their shit list.
Didn't like the intrusive and entirely inapposite background music. Not up the high standards of Life on Earth et al but there you go.

I was watching something I'd recorded last night and this popped onto my screen when I pressed stop. I couldn't change the channel fast enough - it was horrible, just horrible. I've never liked nature programmes so I don't watch them, if that's what they're like these days I'm glad I usually steer well clear.

was amazing. 3 Leopards bringing down an Ostrich, never seen that before and the female Killer Whale who swims into the shallows around The Falklands to catch seals. She rocks side to side to create waves in 8ft of water to knock basking seals into the sea off the rocks. She's unique apparently and I saw it happen in my living room. Wow man, I love nauture!

were the best. Watching their technique for killing and eating a much larger Water Buffalo was riveting.

Attenborough is only on narration duties for this, I think (ie he didn't actually write it). Not my original perception, but I agree with some of the reviews I've read that say the series zaps around a bit much, sort of MTV-Nature. It's certainly a bit more breakneck (literally, in the case of the throttled ostrich) than the master's own series.

For all that, though, I think the 'Creatures of the Deep' episode was astounding television. I was genuinely astonished, so often, on what felt like an almost frame-by-frame basis, that I actually began to feel a bit weird. Overprivileged to be seeing it all, almost. Great stuff.